Collar and necktie fastener.



No. 660,882.L Patented out. 3o, |900.

H BARNES COLLAR AND NEGK'TIE FASTENER, (Appl t nldJuM2 1900) (No Rodel.)

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HAROLD BUTLER BARNES, OF EDGEWOOD PARK, PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAR AND N ECKTIE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 660,882, dated October 30, 1900. Application filed June 2, 1900. Serial No. 18.896. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD BUTLER BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edgewood Park, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Collar and Necktie Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for fastening collars and neckties in position; and it has for its object to provide a combined collar and necktie fastener that shall be simple and inexpensivein construction and by means of which a collar may be more readily attached to the neckband of a shirt than has been the case, so far as I am aware,with devices heretofore designed for this purpose.`

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of a shirt with my device in position in the neckband before the collar is attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a portion of a shirt, a collar, and a necktie with my fastening device in operative position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device embodying my invention.

The device as constructed by me comprises a button l for engagement with the inner side of the neckband of a shirt, which is of sufiicient size to prevent it from passing through the buttonholes in the neckband. Projecting from the front side of this button, preferably from the center and at substantially right angles to its face, is a wire shank 2, the length of which is somewhat greater than the combined thickness of a shirt-band and the two buttonhole ends of a collar and which constitutes an integral part of the collar and necktie fastening device. At the outer end ofthe straight shank portion 2 the wire is bent upward and inward to form a bulging portion 3, that is materially nearer the face of the button l than the outer end of the shank 2. The Wire then is doubled upon itself to form a loop 4 and extends downward a considerable distance and is provided with a pin 5, the lower free end of which is in'position to engage a necktie or scarf and hold it in position. The pin is preferably bent inward to form a projection 6 or is otherwise provided with a projection at the point indicated in order to more securely hold the necktie in position.

In using the device shown it is first inserted through the neckband from the inner side.A

The hook and the loop 4 being in the same plane and the wire being of comparatively small diameter, the entire wire portion may be readily slipped through the button hole or holes, as the case may be. The ends of the collar may be slipped over the wire portion into position in substantially the same manner by inserting the free end of the Wire through the buttonholes of the collar successively, t-lie hook 5 and loop 4' being turned so as to lie in the plane of the butionhole. After the collar has been brought into position so that the buttonholes surround the straight shank portion 2 the device is turned so that the loop 4 serves as a button to hold the collar in place, the rearwardlyfprojecting portion or bulge 3 being so located as to insure the retention of the collar in position. When the necktie or scarf is tied and brought into the desired position, it may be engaged by the hook 5,which serves to hold it in position.

It will be readily seen that the device is simple and inexpensive in construction and that a collar and necktie ,may be readily attached to the neckband and be securely heldv in position.

While I have shown my invention as composed of a button or head and a bent wire of circular cross-section, it will be understood that the form and size of the button and the cross-sectional forms of the wire may be different from what is shown.

In case my invention is employed in connection with a string tie the plane of the collar-retaining bulge and the tie-retaining pin will be approximately horizontal instead of vertical.

I claim as my inventionl. A combined collar and necktie'fastener comprising a button and a wire portion projecting outward from one face of the button 9 approximately at right angles thereto to forni a shank portion somewhat greater in length than the combined thickness of a neckband and the buttonhole ends of acollar, and projecting from the outer end of the shank por- IOO 1ion laterally and inwardly to form a bulge l ing loop, the free end of the wire having a and then laterally in the opposite direction, neekte-engaging pin, substanbiallyas shown the free end of said wire being provided with and described.

a pin for engagement with a neckfie, substan- In testimony whereof I have hereunto suh- 5 tially as shonn and described. scribed my name this 26th day of May, 1900. I5 2. A combined collar and neekme holder HAROLD ,BUTLER BARNES comprising` a neekhand-engaging button and a collar and neokllie retaining portion in the Witnesses:

form of a wire having a shank portion termi- VVILFRED BARNES, Jr., to nailing` in a laterally and rearwardly projeet.- H. W. MCINTOSH. 

